Parent Prompt: Tattoos
CPYU Parent Prompts are a regularly released resource to spark biblically-centered conversations with your kids about the issues they face in today’s youth culture. Although tattoos are more common today, they can still be controversial. Perhaps you are a parent…
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Trend Alert: Language is Important – Problems with the Term “Gay Christian”
This CPYU Trend Alert, written by Dr. C. Scott Shidemantle, Professor of Biblical Studies at Geneva College, in Beaver Falls, PA, tackles the issues of language, the problem of “gay Christian” terminology, a challenge to use more biblical language, and…
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Parent Prompt: Energy Crisis? Teenagers and Energy Drinks
CPYU Parent Prompts are a regularly released resource to spark biblically-centered conversations with your kids about the issues they face in today’s youth culture. Energy drink companies promise alertness, focus, and increased physical performance for those who consume their products.…
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Parent Prompt: Foundations for Biblical Friendships
CPYU Parent Prompts are a regularly released resource to spark biblically-centered conversations with your kids about the issues they face in today’s youth culture. We know friendship to be fundamental to our lives, but one of the biggest problems for…
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Parent Prompt: Youth Sports & Church Participation
CPYU Parent Prompts are a regularly released resource to spark biblically-centered conversations with your kids about the issues they face in today’s youth culture. For families with young athletes, the pressure to participate in travel and club teams continues to…
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Parent Prompt: Safetyism
CPYU Parent Prompts are a regularly released resource to spark biblically-centered conversations with your kids about the issues they face in today’s youth culture. In his timeless book Orthodoxy, G.K. Chesterton once wisely quipped that the modern world is “full…
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Parent Prompt: BeReal
CPYU Parent Prompts are a regularly released resource to spark biblically-centered conversations with your kids about the issues they face in today’s youth culture. Most social media platforms today encourage their members to play with filters, editing, facetuning and retouching.…
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Parent Prompt: Grief
CPYU Parent Prompts are a regularly released resource to spark biblically-centered conversations with your kids about the issues they face in today’s youth culture. Parents, now is the time to prepare your children and teens to face the various times…
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Parent Prompt: Modesty
CPYU Parent Prompts are a regularly released resource to spark biblically-centered conversations with your kids about the issues they face in today’s youth culture. When the topic of modesty comes up, most people only see it through the lens of…
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Parent Prompt: Image of God
CPYU Parent Prompts are a regularly released resource to spark biblically-centered conversations with your kids about the issues they face in today’s youth culture. Should every person be valued and treated with dignity? In a culture that struggles to truly…
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Parent Prompt: Chat GPT and Today’s Teen
CPYU Parent Prompts are a regularly released resource to spark biblically-centered conversations with your kids about the issues they face in today’s youth culture. Christian parents need to approach the artificial intelligence (AI) tools that our kids are using with…
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Parent Prompt: Teens and Gambling
CPYU Parent Prompts are a regularly released resource to spark biblically-centered conversations with your kids about the issues they face in today’s youth culture. As Christians, we need to embrace a biblically-faithful theological perspective that not only informs our personal…
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